This will be more of a how to guide, I know a pole is a huge crutch but I found the investment worth it. It will only benefit durring house parties, or for some added fun bring a girl back. First off, I'm fairly new here, thought I knew quite a bit about "the game" but after looking at your advice and doing some other reading I just barely scratched the surface. I was uncomfortable approaching girls in clubs so when I was a sophomore in college I felt the need to bring the club to me. At house/dorm parties I have no AA and if I hosted said party, I was clearly the AMOG even though some of my male friends were more outgoing/attractive than me. I had learned bar tending in high school, that combined with the creation of a stripper pole in my apartment/dorm, it quickly promoted my room to be the most notorious party dorm on campus. (We found out that the freshman had dubbed my dorm "the bad room") If only I knew then what I know now, I would have spent a lot more nights with an overcrowded bed.

So let's get started, First thing you should know about stripper poles:

  • Unless she is extremely fit and a professional stripper, she will not be doing spins on the way down. Stripper poles come in two main varieties, static and rotating. By rotation I mean the pole is on ball bearings and the pole itself rotates, the girl just holds on (this actually made me kind of disappointed)

Planning

My prototype I had in my dorm was slightly shorter than the ceiling to be a snug fit so we stuffed books in the gap to make it stable, since then I have revised my design to take into account variable ceiling height

  • Make sure your ceiling and floor are level and you have a 4' clearance on the floor and 3' clearance on the ceiling.
  • Obviously get a measurement from floor to ceiling.
  • You have a vehicle to transport your pole.
  • Find your building regulations (Mines needed to adhere to my dorm regulations of no permanent damage to the dormitory)
  • Since my pole needed to be non damaging, and removeable I decided to build it in component form. I built it as 3 main parts bottom base, pole and top plate. Since we could not drill into the ceiling and floor the large base was the best alternative, it also would help distribute the forces generated by a person on it making it more stable.
  • Use your ceiling measurement and take off about 8 - 10 inches, this will be made up by your top plate and bottom base, flanges and a height adjustment piece.
  • Find a thickness of pole to suit the girls that will be on it (The girls I usually have over are about 5' 4" on average so a 1.75" diameter pole fits better in their hand)
  • Now the height adjustment piece will be the more difficult piece, it needs to be slightly larger than the pole its self since the threading must interlock. Finding this maybe difficult to say the least (subsequently finding the flange that would go with it would be even more difficult), the best alternative would be to find a metal sleeve. It will be used to join two threaded pieces of equal diameter of the pole together. For this use about a 4-6" of said sleeve and about 4 " for the other part of height adjustment piece.

Materials:

  • 1 4' diameter 3/4" - 1" thick wooden base for the bottom (We first did it with particle board, don't do it. It's a bitch to cut, unnecessarily heavy and it chips, Lowes and other hardware stores have nice smooth pre cut selections running for about $25-$35)
  • 1 3' diameter 3/4" - 1" thick wooden base for the top.
  • 1 (Your ceiling measurement - height adjustment piece) Galvanized steel pole. (We asked a worker for help and recommended we use galvanized steel over stainless and brass just to be sure it is sturdy.) For example mines was 7'4" and 1.75" diameter. Make sure both sides are threaded
  • 1 4-6" galvanized steel piece for the height adjustment piece (easiest if its cut from the same piece as the pole) completely thread this piece on the outside
  • 1 6" metal sleeve for your pole's diameter, have the inside completely threaded.
  • 2 Flanges for your poles diameter
  • Appropriate nuts and bolts
  • 2 pieces of carpet ( so the protruding nuts and bolts on the bases will not scratch/ dig into the ceiling and floor)
    • Sand paper, one fine the other coarse
  • Spray paint ( I went with silver, you can do brass or whatever you want)
  • Spray on lacquer for the final coat, you may also want to prime before painting.

Assembly

  • Wet sand the pole to remover burs and to get it into a very slick feel.
  • Prime the pole if you chose to, paint in light even coats, then lacquer. (For those that don't spray paint much you want to keep the canister about 1.5' from the pole for light coats) *Put tape over the threaded parts, paint will make it difficult to screw in in final set up)
  • Repeat for metal sleeve.
  • For the bases, sand til smooth, find center, drill and attach the flanges. I would recommend lacquering this bases just for a nicer aesthetic (girls will more readily jump on the nicer stripper pole than the ugly one)
  • Glue the carpet pieces to the part of the bases in such a way that it would cover the nuts and bolts that secure the flanges to the bases and that would make contact to the floor and ceiling.
  • Installation would be best done with 2 people. Bottom base should be laid down under a clear part of the ceiling from lights and fixtures. Have the sleeve fully screwed down onto the pole and screw the pole contraption together with the bottom base.
  • Screw the smaller 6" pole into the top plate's flange. Attach the top to the pole, and rotate the sleeve so an equal portion of the top and bottom pole is in the sleeve. With that you hold the top plate stationary and the rotate the sleeve to adjust for height.

If you build it they will come Also you have no idea how many girls asked to come over to "exercise"